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A voté pour "Accident of Birth", le premier que j'ai écouté.Par Purepeople.com Pure People - Lundi 15 septembre, 15h12
C'est un état de fait qu'on oublie facilement : la notoriété n'est pas toujours synonyme de prospérité. Une carrière internationale n'est pas nécessairement incompatible avec des à-côté et des petits boulots. Pour Bruce Dickinson, leader du groupe de heavy metal Iron Maiden, le job d'appoint, c'est… pilote de ligne !
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Le quinquagénaire a fait sensation ce week-end, comme le rapporte le site du quotidien belge La dernière heure (http://www.dhnet.be) en prenant les commandes d'un Boeing 757 pour permettre à 221 touristes bloqués en Egypte (suite à la faillite du tour-opérateur XL Leisure) de rallier la Grande-Bretagne. Lui estime n'avoir fait que son boulot : salarié de la compagnie Astraeus depuis 9 ans, il était devenu pilote de ligne en 1993, à un moment où sa carrière solo ne parvenait pas à décoller. Depuis, il a retrouvé ses compères et continue à donner des concerts de folie, conjuguant ses deux activités.
Personne n'a indiqué s'il avait toute latitude dans le choix de la programmation musicale à bord. Pas sûr que Fear of the dark en plein vol long courrier pris dans des perturbations soit spécialement rassurant.
IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson has contributed a recipe to "Vulcan to the Pie", a cook book sold in support of Vulcan Bomber XH558. The book, which was made, produced and inspired by the club members of the Vulcan To The Sky club to help raise money to keep the Vulcan bomber XH558 flying, features additional contributions from Sir Jack Hayward, Gordon Ramsey, Rick Stein, Pete Waterman plus the crew and supporters of XH558. This book also inculdes exclusive photos of XH558 and her crew. All money raised in this auction will go directly to the Vulcan To The Sky.
In 1994, having left Iron Maiden for a time (he rejoined in 1999), Bruce Dickinson released his second solo album, entitled Balls To Picasso. Named in honour of the cubist pioneer whose representations of spherical objects were as squares and reflected on the cover in graffiti style on a tiled bathroom wall, the album belied its irreverent title by solidifying Dickinson’s reputation as a serious solo artist.
His first record with collaborator Roy Z, and recorded with Z’s band Tribe Of Gypsies, it went through various iterations before its release, produced by Shay Baby. The original album included a number of classic tracks and live favorites from Dickinson including the singles “Tears Of The Dragon” and “Shoot All The Clowns,” alongside the much-loved epic “Laughing In The Hiding Bush,” which was the original title for the album.
Yet despite its positive reception at the time, it never quite captured Dickinson’s original vision which was even more expansive in scope and ambition. However, with the ability to revisit his solo catalog – and following on from Dickinson’s hugely acclaimed album The Mandrake Project in 2024 – the brand-new part re-recorded, remixed and newly mastered version of the album, now entitled More Balls To Picasso, reimagines it as a fresh and contemporary release; a roaringly full-throttle and ambitious collection of supremely crafted and realized songs.
Dickinson says of it, “While mixing all my catalogue into Dolby Atmos I had a nagging desire to revisit and reinvent the record. So putting more balls into ‘Balls…’ was a labour of love. Of course, we beefed up the guitars – courtesy of our ‘Swedish shredder’ Philip Naslund and we added some really beautiful work by Adassi Addasi on ‘Tears…’ as well. Fellow Brazilian composer Antonio Teoli added some stunning orchestral arrangements, and in a unique contribution, added indigenous instruments from the Amazon (recorded by himself when he lived there!) at the beginning of ‘Gods Of War’.
“‘Shoot All The Clowns’ gets the benefit of a horn section fronted by the Berklee College of Music, and all of the record gets the benefit of the mix by Brendan Duffey, (who worked on The Mandrake Project), with notes along the way from Shay Baby, the original father of the album.”
Additionally, More Balls To Picasso includes two previously unreleased live in-the-studio tracks, “Gods Of War” and “Shoot All The Clowns.” It will be available as a splatter vinyl double album and tri-panel digisleeve CD album.